turn off SQL logging while keeping settings.DEBUG?

Django logs SQL operations to an internal buffer (whether logging to file or not) when settings.DEBUG=True. Because I have long-running process that does a lot of DB operations, this causes my development-mode instances of the program to grow in memory consumption very quickly.

I would like to disable the internal SQL logging mechanism while leaving settings.DEBUG turned on for my development: is this possible?

When settings.DEBUG is True, Django uses CursorDebugWrapper instead of CursorWrapper. This is what appends the queries to connection.queries and consumes memory. I would monkey-patch the connection wrapper to always use CursorWrapper: